A new "optoexcitonic switch" already achieves state-of-the-art performance over current electronics and could serve as the ...

A team of researchers from Boston College has created a new metallic specimen where the motion of electrons flows in the same way water flows in a pipe—fundamentally changing from particle-like to ...

Modern imaging is contributing significantly to giving us a better understanding of how our brains work. In the long term, ...

A new study reveals that a buildup of metabolism in specialized brain cells is what triggers the need for sleep. Sleep may ...

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have rapidly emerged as a front-runner in next-generation photovoltaic technologies, boasting a ...

A simple electrical method shows how protein nanowires carry both electrons and ions, offering a clearer way to design soft, ...

The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage ...

Researchers at NPL have reported a novel high-speed charge sensing method for ballistic electrons, a potentially useful technique in the fields of electron quantum optics, quantum electrical metrology ...

That resistance-free electron flow is what makes superconductors so attractive for real-world applications, Liu said. Without resistance, electrons can flow further with more energy—meaning if ...

A NASA-sponsored team is advancing single-photon sensing Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) detector technology that will enable future NASA ...